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Re: loading a compressed ramdisk image



On Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 03:21:03PM -0400, Andrew Dixon wrote:

> I've only read the man pages for rdev and I'm still not clear on how it
> works.  Does it mask a word in the kernel that has all of the
> information on where to locate the root image?  If that's all it does I
> don't see why it wouldn't work for the PPC.  Unless that word lives in a
> different location on the PPC.

it tweaks values in the i386 piggyback bootloader, not the kernel
image. 

-- 
Ethan Benson
http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/

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